I HEART FOOD SCIENCE Archive

By: Molly Bourg Planning on paying South Louisiana a little visit? Maybe it’s for Mardi Gras, maybe it’s for a little recreational hunting and fishing, maybe… it’s just because. Regardless of the reason, we are known for our rich...

By: Elizabeth Clark In the United States, the months of July-October are noted for a transition in seasons. The sweltering hot days of summer turn into the crisp cool days of fall; with this comes a change in the...

By: John Gleeson Recently I found myself in Scotland. Home of Braveheart’s William Wallace, Disney Brave’s Merida (oh I see what you did there Disney, clever) and Calvin Harris. Also home to an abundance of quirky cuisine delights, but...

By: Amelia Chen At our IFTSA area meeting, all we had to say was that we were in town for a food trivia competition for the hotel concierge to chuckle and overlook their policy for having a credit card...

By: Amelia Chen I didn’t know what to expect when I began my semester at UW-Madison, since graduate school and food science were both new to me, but it turned out to be an otherwise typical semester – meeting...

Last week, an open letter to Vani Hari, the Food Babe, was posted on Science Meets Food. We are pleased that Ms. Hari has engaged with us in this dialogue. The original letter can be read here, and a...

Greetings Ms. Hari, We are writing to you as a group of students, scientists-in-training if you will. Collectively, we study all different aspects of the science of food: food microbiology, food chemistry, functional foods, food processing and variety of...

By: Alex Pierce When we were little kids we all formulated plans for our future professional selves that, more than likely, followed extremely different paths than those that we follow presently. One of you out there was going to...

By Matt Teegarden If you did not catch CBS’s The Amazing Race last Friday or have been avoiding social media for the last five days, then let me fill you in: THE SWEET SCIENTISTS WON THE AMAZING RACE! THEY...

By: Kenny McMahon I think we can all honestly say that we thought Amy and Maya, the #SweetScientists, were going to be eliminated last Friday in the second to last leg of the Amazing Race. This would have otherwise...